{"id":44846,"date":"2025-04-23T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44846\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:18:11","slug":"the-story-of-the-mets-missing-banksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44846\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of the Met\u2019s \u2018missing\u2019 Banksy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Banksy has been making mischief for years, including hitting the US headlines in 2005 when he illicitly hung a work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. John Barelli, the head of the Met\u2019s security department from 2001 to 2016, told The New Yorker last month that three accomplices helped the street artist to carry out the audacious stunt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Two of them began arguing, distracting the guards, allowing the third, who wore a fake beard and a tweed hat, to covertly affix a painting to the wall, depicting a woman in a gas mask. The intruder then placed a placard next to the painting: \u201cBanksy, 1975. \u2018Last breath.\u2019 Oil on board. Donated by the artist.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Banksy apparently tried to reclaim his property. \u201cAbout a month later, I got a call from our legal department, telling me that he wants it back,\u201d Barelli said. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Well, he can\u2019t have it back. We threw it out.\u2019\u201d So where is the piece now? Barelli admits that when he retired, he took the work himself. \u201cIf I need some money, maybe I\u2019ll do something with it.\u201d Kerching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banksy has been making mischief for years, including hitting the US headlines in 2005 when he illicitly hung&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,15791,4022,7792,77,24754,4447,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-44846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-banksy","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-diary","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114389366657331292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}